In the mid-80s I was only holiday in a rural part of northern France, while there we visited a school fete in a nearby village. One of the sideshow attractions was a hook-a-duck game, only with real ducklings instead of rubber ducks, with the ducklings being the prize.

Once when I was in Dubai I saw a giant crane game equipped with enormous dumptruck-sized claws (padded with rubber from tire treads) hanging on cables from a big dock gantry and being used to try to pick up pachyderms as prizes.